Day 2: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
- Episode aired May 20, 2003
- TV-14
- 44m
Jack and Sherry head to LA Coliseum to meet Peter Kingsley. Upon hearing evidence via the live audio feed, President Prescott aborts the air strike. David Palmer is reinstated as President, ... Read allJack and Sherry head to LA Coliseum to meet Peter Kingsley. Upon hearing evidence via the live audio feed, President Prescott aborts the air strike. David Palmer is reinstated as President, and speaks to the nation about the nuclear bomb.Jack and Sherry head to LA Coliseum to meet Peter Kingsley. Upon hearing evidence via the live audio feed, President Prescott aborts the air strike. David Palmer is reinstated as President, and speaks to the nation about the nuclear bomb.
Storyline
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- TriviaAs an April Fool's joke on the crew, producer/director Jon Cassar revealed this fake ending to this episode. Palmer's press conference ends and he goes down to his limo. He gets in successfully and rides off. After a while, we find out that someone is sitting next to him. That someone is Nina Myers. We realize that Palmer was in on the whole thing. We then shift to a scene in the desert. We close in on a parachute, then pan over to reveal George Mason, who jumped out of the plane before the bomb exploded. The end.
- GoofsWhen Jack and Sherry Palmer are running through the stadium after the confrontation with Peter Kingsley, Jack is thrown against the wall by one of Kingsley's men. Directly to the left of him is a cameraman.
- Quotes
Ryan Chappelle: [after entering the holding room Michelle and Tony are in] sit down: both of you
Tony Almeida: Look, you don't need Michelle here, she was acting under my orders
Michelle Dessler: [to Tony] I can defend myself
Ryan Chappelle: I said sit down. I need you to get me in contact with Jack Bauer
Tony Almeida: Oh, I see, Jack got some support from above and now you're being squeezed right?
Ryan Chappelle: Can you do it or not?
Tony Almeida: What's going on?
Ryan Chappelle: Bauer's evidence may have some relevance
Michelle Dessler: Which means we were right?
Ryan Chappelle: No. You damn near put me in a coma! That's assault
Tony Almeida: I'll tell you what, you drop the charges against us and we'll help you. You of all people know that's your best move right?
Ryan Chappelle: Fine
Tony Almeida: In writing
Ryan Chappelle: Alright, in writing
Ryan Chappelle: Just get me in touch with Bauer
- ConnectionsReferences Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Situation so far: Peter Kingsley (Tobin Bell) is officially confirmed as the man responsible for every bad thing that has happened since the season began, although we have been shown he has at least one associate, a terrorist named Max (Thomas Kretschmann), whose role in the story is, however, unknown to the government. In fact, President elect Jim Prescott (Alan Dale) still believes his cause to be just, hence Jack's idea to organize a meeting between Kingsley and Sherry Palmer, who was in on the whole thing, to prove the Cyprus recording was bogus and attacking three Middle-Eastern countries would be a huge mistake.
Season One attracted most of the attention it got for the real-time format, even though praise was also due (and duly granted) for the sharp writing, swift technical execution and astounding acting (Kiefer Sutherland even won a Golden Globe for his work on the first series). Season Two raised the stakes with a more elaborate story, and therefore it was almost impossible not to cherish the narrative first and the timing gimmick later. Of course, it's not so hard to laud something when it's better than its predecessor: as near perfect as it could be, Day 1 had one slight defect plot-wise (the amnesia digression), whereas Day 2 is flawless. If one really has to nag about details, it could be pointed out that Kim Bauer's portion of the script had virtually no ties whatsoever to the main tale, but hey, why complain when it's all pulled off so well?
Another commendable aspect of the second series is the cast, both old and new: Sutherland, Haysbert and Carlos Bernard (not to mention Xander Berkeley and Penny Johnson) improved on their already superb work in Day 1, while good support came in the form of Sarah Wynter, JOhn Terry, Alan Dale and Tobin Bell. It's this seamless combination of well established and unseen, which can sometimes "kill" a show (see how much ER has benefited from continuous cast changes), that makes 24 - Season 2 a superior television product.
Oh, and by the way: how many people can watch the last minutes of this episode and not develop an uncontrollable urge to see Day 3 right away? Now that's what I call an effective cliffhanger.
- MaxBorg89
- Jul 9, 2008